Horse-collar



(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2. M. F. SAUER.

HORSE COLLAR.

No. 330,623. Patented Nov. 17, 1885;

INVENTOR ATTORNEYS.

' N. PETERS. PhnlD-Lilhognphur. Wlshlllginn. D. C.

(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

M. F. SAUER.

HORSE COLLAR. F

Ely:

WITNESSES I INVENTOR:

ATTORNEYS.

a. PETERS, Fhnlo-Lflhognphnr. Walhlnginn. 11C.

NI'IED STATES MARTIN FRED. SAUER, OF SOMONAUK, ILLINOIS.

HORSE-COLLAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 330,623, dated November17, 1885.

Application filed July 21, 1885. Serial No. 172,199.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, MARTIN FRED. SAUER, ofSomonauk, in the county of De Kalb and State of Illinois, have inventeda new and Improved Horse-Gollar, of which the following is a full,clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to the construction and manufacture ofhorse-collars.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a view of one-half of a partiallycompleted collar. Figs. -2and 3 are patterns of the main cover and lining of the collar. Fig. 4 isa sectional View on line :0 :0, Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a sectional View online y y, Fig. 1; and Fig. 6 is a sectional view of a portion of thecompleted collar. Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the complete collar.

A represents the main cover or breast-piece, and B the lining of thecollar, the two parts being united and the space between them stuffedwith hair or other suitable material to make the body of the collar, aswill be more fully explained. The relative size and shape of the parts Aand B are well illustrated in Figs. 3 and 2, respectively. 7

In the construction of my collar the edges or and b of the pieces A andB are brought together by placing the lining B beneath the breast-pieceA, and the two parts are then united by a common whip-seam, as shown atc in Fig. 1. In uniting the outer edges of the pieces A and B the liningB is held back from the edge of the breast-piece A, so as to be slightlyfulled, as shown in Fig. 4, and the uniting-seam I is formed by sewingdirectly through and through the leather, so that the stitch will lieflat upon the surface and not pass over the edges of the parts. In thisway a better and smoother outer edge may be formed and the stitches'willbe protected from wear. The stitch referred to is clearly shown in Fig.1, and is made by passing a narrow strip, 9, preferably of leather,through both A and B at d, carrying the loop diagonally across to e,again passing the strip through both A and B, carrying on to f, and soon throughout the seam. The two sides of (No model.)

the collar are united at the threat by means of a short binding-piece,as O, and a short piece of leather or cord, D, which are secured inplace by a seam, h, which passes through the lapped ends of thebinding-piece 0, through the pieces A and B, and also through the cordD, as shown in Figs. 1 and 5. The bindingstrip E is united to the collarby a seam, H, in all respects similar to the seam I, the strip 9 passingthrough two parallel lines of perforations, g,formed through both endsof the U- loop formed by bending over the strip E as well as through thepieces A and B, as is clearly shown in Fig. 4. The seam H, when put inas I have described, forms a natural channel, N, for the hames.

- The collar is stuffed in the usual manner, and the upper ends of thetwo sides are united in any of the well-known ways.

A collar constructed as described Will outwear the ordinary form ofcollar, and the peculiar neck formation is such that while the collar isvery strong at that point it is still flexible and will not bear on thethroat or breast of the horse. The formation of the channel N, I alsoconsider a very important feature of my invention.

The binding-strip 0 might be omitted in the construction of the collarwithout departing fromthespirit of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a horse-collar, the combination of the parts A B, havingcoincident alternately-arranged openings formed in them in approximatelyparallel lines, and the securing-strip 0, passed spirally through saidopenings on different longitudinal lines, substantially as set forth.

2. A horse-collar in which the two side halves of the collar are unitedby a bindingpiece, 0, and cord D, through which and the parts A and Bthere is passed a heavy thread to form a seam, h, substantially asdescribed.

3. A horse-collar in which the parts A and B are united by seams, as cand I, to constitute one unfinished side of the collar, said sides beingunited at the throat by a binding-piece, O, and a cord or strip, D,through which and the two side parts there is passed 9, passed throughand through the double a seam, h, the inner edge of the collar beingline of perforations g, substantially as debound with a strip, E, unitedthereto by sea-In scribed. H, substantially as described.

4. In a horse-collar, the combination, with Witnesses: the parts A B,and binding-piece E, lapped CHARLES J. VVAI-LIS, over the edges of theparts A B, of the strip H. T. HEss.

MARTIN FRED. SAUER.

